Holiday Ornaments

 Even during good times, sustaining a small ethical clothing brand can feel like running a marathon over and over again. That's why, during these unprecedentedly challenging times, we're teaming up with a select handful of like-minded businesses like Pilgrim Imports. Read more below.

When you support one of us, you're supporting all of us. And a better world.

Pilgrim Imports transactions will be completely separate from any purchase you make at fairindigo.com. Partnering with Pilgrim Imports and Amazon allows us to relieve the COVID-19 related delivery challenges that small businesses like ours face. 

Thirty years ago the village outside Chiang Mai, Thailand where these astoundingly well-crafted ornaments are made was chronically poor. Today it's thriving thanks to a creative partnership between over 400 artisans, like Chai and Chan pictured below, and Pilgrim Imports of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

No longer do parents send their kids away to faraway big cities to work in grueling and often dangerous factories. They are able to remain in their home town and utilize traditional metal-working skills that have been passed down through generations in this beautiful bucolic region where family and food are cherished.

Each piece is crafted by hand, usually in the artisans' homes, allowing them to escape the rat race of long bus commutes and daycare. No lead or other dangerous chemicals are used (lime juice is the strongest solvent!) so there is no industrial waste and the area farmland and streams remain pristine. 

The living wage jobs in the village have propelled improvements in other areas of civic life too. For example, the elementary school recently installed a paved road, computers in classrooms, and running drinking water. The Thai government has deemed this once destitute school a model for rural education.